Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — GOOD PRICE FOR TOBACCO [ARTICLE]

GOOD PRICE FOR TOBACCO

Indiana Growers Received Fourteen Cents For Their Bums? Evansville. Ind., Dec. 21—Three and one half million pounds of tobacco, representing the entire crop of Spencer, Warrick, Dubois and Piktf counties, Indiana, was sold at Richland City, Ind., by the committee of the American Boclety of Equity to Commodore P. McClary of Boonville, Ind., and the Louisville Tobacco Warehouse company. The burley brought 14 cents a pound for the best grades, while the dark tobacco was sold for 8% cents and 7 cents a pound.